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  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

      Latest: New Members - Introduce Yourself Aurastys Oct 16, 2019 at 8:31 AM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: The All Purpose Advice Thread A Child of the Jago Oct 16, 2019 at 12:30 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: Looking for good MQA and DSD recordings Metro Oct 16, 2019 at 5:50 PM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: New England SBAFers jcn3 Oct 15, 2019 at 2:32 PM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: EARS FR Measurement Dump (ZMF, Focal, Audeze, Extras) Lyander Sep 22, 2019
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: 403 Errors Stuff Jones Oct 5, 2019
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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: Raal Requisite SR-1A AdvanTech Oct 15, 2019 at 6:52 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: Donald North Audio — Owners Thread Claud Oct 16, 2019 at 4:37 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: Campfire Audio Solaris - raising the bar? ufospls2 Oct 15, 2019 at 4:35 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: Digital Cables fastfwd Oct 2, 2019
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: Schiit Unison USB rtaylor76 Oct 16, 2019 at 4:38 PM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: Mac Mini issues with DSD Claud Oct 15, 2019 at 6:52 PM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: Mobile Fidelity (MoFi) Turntables and Phono Stages Gaspasser Oct 16, 2019 at 3:19 AM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Schiit Saga Thread willsw Sep 26, 2019
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions Aklegal Oct 16, 2019 at 9:07 AM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: Nearfields for audiophile listening? yunie_ Oct 15, 2019 at 12:42 PM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: Jupiter Audio Research HD650 Impressions/Measurements (Finalized Mod) ChaChaRealSmooth Oct 13, 2019 at 2:11 PM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Drop x JVC HA-FDX1 DD IEM: The second coming of ... CEE TEE Sep 10, 2019
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: Shortest Way 51+ technical measurements atomicbob Oct 9, 2019
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Schiit Bifrost-2 Technical Measurements Psalmanazar Sep 27, 2019
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Goldpoint SA2X - Nobsound NS-05P passive attenuator comparison technical measurements Shplad Aug 19, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: New portable headphone measuring setup cskippy Oct 4, 2019
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: Presumably this will help with the Schiit EU dealers clusterfuck Deep Funk Aug 4, 2019
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    2. Loaner Programs

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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Pathos Aurium Headphone Amp E_Schaaf Oct 16, 2019 at 2:38 PM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog Thad E Ginathom Sep 7, 2019
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: Pass Labs New DIY "WHAMMY" Headphone Amp AllanMarcus Oct 15, 2019 at 5:56 PM
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: WTB: Monoprice Monolith THX 788 DAC/amp combo unit Inoculator Oct 16, 2019 at 3:55 PM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

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    2. Outdoor World

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      Latest: Bikepacking! ergopower Oct 15, 2019 at 1:46 PM
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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

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    4. Food and Drink

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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: The music we make Zed Bopp Oct 12, 2019 at 10:44 AM
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Post Your Favorite Photos (Must have been taken by you!) rlow Oct 15, 2019 at 3:54 PM
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: None of the above - Any cyclists? Prydz Sep 15, 2019
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: Headphone amplifier KIT "Lunch Box II" Zampotech Aug 1, 2019
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History TomB Jul 5, 2019
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    3. Bloom Audio

      https://bloomaudio.com/
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      Latest: Spotlight on Focal Stellia Bloom Oct 16, 2019 at 12:37 PM
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    4. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog Ice-man Aug 28, 2019
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    5. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: Extended Holiday Hours In November netforce Oct 16, 2019 at 5:07 PM
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    6. Eddie Current

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      Latest: Black Widow [Update] - Second round official, 100 amps total, single chassis GoodEnoughGear Oct 10, 2019 at 5:06 AM
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